Calling all science writers
The Canada Foundation for Innovation is now accepting applications for the CFI Emerging Science Journalists Award. Winners receive funding for an in-depth story they've pitched. Rhiannon Russell
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How to be a journalist in 2011
One young journalist realizes that though jobs may be scarce, opportunities are everywhere. Rhiannon Russell
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Briarpatch launches writing contest
Briarpatch is pleased to announce our first annual creative writing contest! We are now accepting submissions of original, unpublished writing in the categories of short fiction and creative non-fiction (memoir, personal essay, literary journalism). With award-winning author Lee Maracle as our judge and $600 in cash prizes to give away, this opportunity is not to…
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Call for submissions: Speak Magazine
It's that time of year again: Speak magazine's annual call for submissions. This year Speak is being headed by the University of Regina's jhr Chapter, with support from faculty and students from the University of Regina's School of Journalism and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Speak is an annual human rights magazine published by…
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U of T launches new post-graduate journalism program
Applications are now being accepted for the latest addition to the list of post-graduate journalism programs in Canada. The University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs says this new program will train subject specialists to be "super-freelancers." Mary McGuire
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The Rights Check-up: first edition podcast
A group of Concordia journalism students delve into the role social media and journalism can play in preventing mass atrocities and genocide in the premier edition of this Journalists for Human Rights "Rights Check-up" podcast. This podcast was originally broadcast on Rabble.ca Lauren McKeon
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A new fellowship for foreign reporting
Applications are now being accepted for the inaugural R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship which will provide major funding to a journalist each year who wants to pursue a major story overseas. Mary McGuire
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Ryerson students get a special lesson in investigative reporting
Six Ryerson journalism students contributed to the research and reporting of a three-part series published recently in the Toronto Star which detailed troubling practices in some Ontario high schools. The first story, by Robert Cribb, documented how some Ontario high school students are getting into university with inflated grades purchased from some privately run, for…
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Five questions for Duncan McCue
University of British Columbia graduate school j-prof Duncan McCue is spearheading the school's brand new, one-of-a-kind journalism course, "Reporting in Indigenous Communities". Developed in partnership with several B.C. aboriginal communities, the course is designed to elevate Canada's not-so-great coverage of aboriginal issues. We caught up with the award-winning CBC journalist and Chippewas of Georgina Island…
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Just another schmuck with a camera
To celebrate our new partnership with the Langara Journalism Review, an all-journalism publication from B.C.-based Langara College's j-program, we're featuring the 2011 cover story on photojournalist Andy Clark. Clark may say he's just another schmuck with a camera, but as Langara writer Leasa Hachey writes, he also gets the shot nobody else does. Read on…